RSNA2010.PlanningLog

RSNA 2010

RSNA’s 96th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting at the McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago, IL. The 96th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting begins on Sunday, November 28, at 8:30am and adjourns on Friday, December 3, at 3:15pm.

RSNA 2010 AudioVisual Guidelines

To enhance the meeting room environment at RSNA 2010, all screens will be 16:9 widescreen format, not 4:3 as in previous years. To take full advantage of the new widescreen format, build or convert your presentation to 16:9. If you use 4:3 as your presentation format aspect ratio, your presentation will be "pillar boxed" on the 16:9 screens. Please download the below to assist you in your preparations.

Speaker Guidelines:

• Audiovisual Guidelines and Instructions for Speakers

For Windows Users:

• Demo Showing How to Convert Slides to Widescreen Format
• Presenter Slide Template

For Macintosh Users:

• Demo Showing How to Convert Slides to Widescreen Format
• Presenter Slide Template for 08
• Presenter Slide Template for 09

If you have any special requirements – i.e., sound, Internet, use of your own computer – please contact Kim Christianson at kchristianson@rsna.org or Janet Cooper at jcooper@rsna.org. All special requirements are subject to review for approval.

Beginning in mid October, you will be able to submit your presentation in advance by accessing the RSNA submission site. Information on how to access the site will be sent closer to the date.

CTSA Slicer Workshop

Tenative plans are to adapt hands-on workshop from 2009, including Slicer3Minute, ChangeTracker, and PET/CT.

Slicer combined tutorial slides from RSNA2009

If possible, we will modify this workshop to include Slicer3Minute, PET/CT and DCEMRI.

Quantitative Imaging Reading Room

The Quantitative Imaging Reading Room will be located in the Lakeside Learning Center (Hall E) of McCormick Place Convention Center, Chicago.

Exhibit Hours

• Exhibit should be accessible to attendees all six days of the meeting.
• The Lakeside Learning Center will be open according to the following schedule:
  • Sunday, Nov. 28, 8:00am – 6:00pm
  • Monday-Thursday, Nov. 29-Dec. 2, 7:00am – 10:00pm
  • Friday, Dec. 3, 7:00am – 12:45pm

Educational materials (link here as developed):

• templates
• poster... (usable poster area 76" x 47")
• slides...
• handouts...
• DEADLINE: All exhibit materials (poster, handouts, presentations, etc) must be submitted to RSNA for review and approval no later than Friday, October 29, 2010.

Meet the Experts sessions:

One hour Meet-the-Experts (MTE) sessions will be held in the QI Reading Room during specified times. The MTE sessions are an opportunity for representatives of your organization to interact with RSNA meeting attendees. The sessions may involve:

• Software demonstrations of quantitative imaging products and applications
• Educating practicing radiologists about strategies for and the importance of augmenting subjective image interpretation with quantitative measures
• Review of the present uses of quantitative imaging in research and in clinical practice
• General question and answer session
• There is NO maximum/limit to to amount of time an exhibitor may be at their booth or interact with meeting attendees.

The scheduled MTEs will be promoted and published on signage and in other promotional items before and during the meeting. All exhibitors are required to provide a minimum of three 1 hour time-slots during which they, or an expert representative will participate in MTE sessions. Slicer sessions are tenatively scheduled for:

• (tentative) Wednesday (12:15-1:15pm)
• (tentative) Thursday (12:15 - 1:15pm)
• public presentation?

Educational posters should be designed to introduce and explain the applications to attendees when an exhibitor is not present.

Infrastructure provided:

Each exhibitor will be provided (no charge):

• One 6.5 foot long (2.0 m) counter (30 inches high) with two chairs
• A computer with 1GIG RAM, if needed
• Two multi-sync 19-inch flat screen LCD monitors,1280-1024 resolution, if needed
• An internet connection
• Electrical outlets
• Fixed poster panels which will accommodate a standard-size poster (usable display area: 77 inches wide x 40 inches high)

Setup:

• Installing and Dismantling of Exhibits (Contact: Karen Hamm, khamm@rsna.org)
• Installing: 8:00am-5:00pm, Saturday, November 27, 2010
• Exhibit must be fully installed by 5:00pm on Saturday, November 27.
• Lakeside Learning Center exhibit area will open on Saturday, November 27 at 8:00am.
• The Lakeside Learning Center will not be open for installation on Friday, November 26.

Dismantling:

• Exibits can be removed between 12:45pm-4:00pm, Friday, December 3, 2010
• Dismantling of exhibits may not begin before Friday, December 3 at 12:45pm and must be completed by 4:00pm.
• Any exhibits not dismantled or shipping arranged by 4:00pm on Friday, December 3 will be dismantled and shipped at the exhibitor’s expense.